[Out near the start of Barrier effect, there's a lone musketeer getting ready to shoulder his pack and his musket.

He's already gone and left a few notes around Camp.]

Well... It was nice while it lasted.

[A few letters have been left in strategic places around Camp.]

( Constable Benton Turnbull )

Motherfucking INFODUMP. I’ve tried writing essays on Last Exile as a series and Mullin’s particular background and place within it a couple different times now, but never once finished because there’s just been too damn much information to cover. I couldn’t explain the little Mullin-specific bits without also covering a whole lot more. But that’s ( Read more... )

Well, despite my best efforts--apparently--Mullin has finally broken the 1000 comments mark! And you know what that means... Relationship Meme! Or Anything Meme, really, if that's more your style--essays, questions, 5 Things, whatever!

This goes for Mullin, plus Thor and Ricochet if anybody's interested.

Five from here.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
-- Meredith Willson, "The Music Man"

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
-- John Le Carre (1931 - ), Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"

I have a new philosophy. I'm only ( Read more... )

For reference (or on the off chance anyone cares to see where I got them from):

1. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death," Alan Seeger.
2. "Innominatus (Breathes There the Man?)," Sir Walter Scott.
3. "Old Ironsides," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
4. "The Men Behind the Guns," John Jerome Rooney.

The Best-Loved Poems of the American People, Chapter " ( Read more... )

Name: Mullin Shetland
Age: 19
Height: 170cm / ~5'7"
Weight: ...?
Eyes: Gray
Hair: Black

Medical Info: Mullin is a normal human in good, athletic shape. He's lived a soldier's life but has very likely (and miraculously) never been wounded in the line of duty until the end of the show.
Appearance: More often than not, Mullin will be in uniform--an ( Read more... )